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The American Committee for Spanish Relief opened a drive for $500,000 with a pageant, "Democracy Imperiled," presented in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. To dramatize the plight of Rightist Spanish civilian sufferers, hundreds of Catholic school children marched in tatters and red-smeared bandages. To represent "Spain" Socialite...
With a Cra-a-a-ack! the ship buckled. Down on the ground went the stern with a peculiarly gentle crash amid clouds of dust and smoke. As the still undamaged bow tilted up at 45°, the flame rushed through the middle and geysered in a long bright plume...
Tennessee's boars, descended from Russian stock imported and freed by South Carolina planters some three decades ago, bear about the same relation to domestic pigs as a Tasmanian bushman bears to a Tammany district leader. Lean and muscular, weighing 150 to 400 lb., the boars' chief characteristics...
These diplomats' months of work have been to save as much as possible of the flag of naval Peace. It was blown to tatters in their hands by the shot Japan discharged in withdrawing from the conference because her "honor" would not permit her to abide by the 5...
One afternoon last week there was something like pandemonium in Rapid City, S. Dak. Sirens screamed; storekeepers thrust exuberant signs in windows; offices closed early. By midnight most of Rapid City and the surrounding countryside had trekked southwest to the rim of Moonlight Valley, a woodsy pockmark in the Black...